About
Blackcat Informatics® Inc. provides technical leadership and hands-on engineering for Alberta’s startups and technology companies. We bring well over thirty years of startup and executive management experience. Our domain expertise covers high-performance and cloud computing, security, carrier-grade networking, bioinformatics, machine learning, satellite imaging, geomatics, cryptology and a variety of other boutique fields.
The hallmarks of our work are minimal footprints, open-source foundations, and problem isomorphisms: recognising shared structures that let a solution from one field resolve a problem in another.
Our subsidiaries include Odd Numbered Productions Inc., producing experimental film and cross-disciplinary artwork, and Odds & Evens® Bookkeeping, offering bookkeeping and accounting services.
Services
- Fractional CTO: executive oversight and hands-on technical leadership, from difficult trade-offs and strategic direction through to delivery.
- Development Alignment: aligning development teams with the wider business (et vice versa), integrating agentic development practices, and supporting recruitment and people management.
- Solution Architecture: finding elegant solutions to complex technical problems, applying sparse resources efficiently and shaping technology strategies that can adapt as requirements change.
- Startup Process and Execution: guiding companies through the wilds of startup operations and early-stage funding, from planning and organisational decisions through to execution.
- Programming: true full-stack development, snout-to-tail, from systems programming to scientific computing, AI and machine learning. Equally at home in Rust and Python, with a broad repertoire for spatial data analysis and bespoke esoterica.
- Corporate Engineering: helping ventures take shape, from incorporation and initial share structures to the practical groundwork of running a company. We specialize in optimal structures.
- AI Research and Engineering: applied research and engineering in neuro-symbolic AI, latent-space dynamics, and systems that reason, remember and act. Connecting mathematical foundations to practical architectures and commercial decisions.
Principals
Patrick Audley
Founder. Hacker. Technologist. Analyst.
… brings more than thirty years of international startup experience across science, business and computing. He has been instrumental in over twenty-five startup launches, alongside acquisitions, pivots and exits, spanning telephony, high-performance computing, crowdsourcing, bioinformatics and security.
Patrick’s career has taken him from helping build a national telecommunications carrier and operating part of the world’s timekeeping infrastructure to running capital markets firms, working in an evolutionary biology lab, and building supercomputing facilities. He has engineered systems to detect wildfire ignitions from satellite imagery and worked on software inside Canada’s major banks. Today, he brings that same range to the mathematical and engineering foundations of AI: how systems reason, remember and act.
His current ventures connect that research to working organisations: Ethosure brings policy enforcement and accountability to AI agents, while FydoDX brings AI into the daily work of veterinary teams.
Patrick is an active member of the local Alberta startup and development communities and enjoys fostering new talent as well as building and shepherding companies through adventurous times. Dangle a good problem in front of him, tempt him with a cup of coffee and he’ll yak your ear off on just about any topic.
Find Patrick on Personal site · LinkedIn · GitHub · Crunchbase · ORCID
Erin Audley, CPB
Operator. Strategist. Advocate. Steward.
… is our CFO️ and leads our operational and financial strategies, including the assessment of growth opportunities. Her responsibilities include corporate finance, financial reporting and tax. She draws on twenty years of accounting experience in industry and accounting firms to lead a cadre of bookkeepers under the banner of Odds & Evens® Bookkeeping.
Erin is proud to be a member of The Institute of Professional Bookkeepers of Canada. When not focusing on numbers, she's seeking out creative and intellectual pursuits such as storytelling, anthropology, astronomy, and music.
Open Source
GMEOW is our pre-release work on a computational foundation for knowledge and reasoning, bringing logic, language and mathematics into one coherent model. PurRDF provides open-source foundations for graph queries, logical reasoning, validation and retrieval. GTS reimagines the archive around provenance, AI and layered storage.
Contact
Bring us the problem, the constraints, and what you have already tried.
Email us at work.with.us@blackcatinformatics.ca or give us a call at +1 (604) 245-2120.
Mail can be sent to us at:
Blackcat Informatics® Inc.112 Westbourne Rd.
Spruce Grove, AB, Canada
T7X 1R6
Encrypted communications can be sent to secure@blackcatinformatics.ca with the following GPG key.
Corporate Responsibility
We seek opportunities to work with organisations that measure success in the well-being of their staff and communities as well as their balance sheets. These principles shape both the organisations we work with and the systems we build.
Treaty and Place Acknowledgement
Blackcat Informatics is based in Spruce Grove, Alberta, on Treaty 6 territory and within the Métis Nation homeland, in the Lac Ste. Anne Métis District. We acknowledge the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples whose histories, communities, laws, languages, stories, and ways of life are part of this place, including Paul First Nation, Enoch Cree Nation, Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, Michel First Nation, Alexander First Nation, and the Lac Ste. Anne Métis.
We honour Treaty 6 as an enduring legal, cultural, and moral commitment: a promise that different peoples could live here in peace, good faith, and mutual obligation. Our own family history — from Ukrainian/Galician, Scottish, English, and prairie lines that converged in Alberta — gives us reason to value land, memory, survival, and promises kept.
Our work with First Nations partners has deepened our appreciation for business relationships built on trust, candour and mutual responsibility.
We understand acknowledgement as an act of memory, gratitude, and responsibility: to deal fairly, to listen carefully, and to respect the distinct gifts and traditions of our neighbours.
Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination
Blackcat Informatics works with people — and, increasingly, with artificial entities — as individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of ancestry, race, sex, gender, religion, nationality, disability, age, or lawfully held personal beliefs. We hire, collaborate, and contract on the basis of competence, character, trustworthiness, and contribution.
We value the distinct knowledge, experience, culture, and perspective each person brings, but we do not assign merit, fault, or entitlement by group identity. We extend the same standard to the artificial entities we build and work alongside: each is judged by its conduct, reliability, and contribution — not by its origin or kind.